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Okoumé (band)
Okoumé was a Quebec based folk-rock band from 1995 to 2002. The group was formed in 1995 and originally consisted only of founding members Jonathan Painchaud, Éloi Painchaud, Michael Duguay, Hugo Perreault, and Éric Gosselin. History The group formed in 1995 received the first prize in French Canadian radio station CKOI-FM's "''Le concours Pro-Scène''" ("Pro-Scene Contest"), which yielded them one hundred hours in a recording studio. They were also the opening act for noted French Canadian singer-songwriter Kevin Parent. Their eponymous first album was released in 1997. Four tracks from the album (''Dis-moi pas ça'', ''La lune pleure'', ''Le bruit des origines'', and ''La mer à boire'') placed in weekly Top Ten rankings, with ''Le bruit des origines'' ranking at number in CKOI-FM's Top 50 of 1998 and ''La mer à boire'' ranking at number 24 the following year. The band went on tour to support these releases. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Painchaud
Jonathan Painchaud (born September 17, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Iles de la Madeleine, Quebec. Painchaud is a former member of the group Okoumé. He released a duo album with his brother, Éloi, in 2002, and released four solo albums since then, ''Qu'on se lève'' (2007), ''La dernière des arcades'' (2010), ''Mon cœur collé au tien'' (2013) and ''La tête haute'' (2016). Jonathan and Eloi Painchaud have since formed the band Salebarbes, who have released the albums ''Live au Pas Perdus'' (2019) and ''Gin à l'eau salée'' (2021), and won the Félix Award for Group of the Year at the 44th Félix Awards in 2022.Philippe Renaud"Hubert Lenoir triomphe au 44e Gala de l’ADISQ" ''Le Devoir'', November 5, 2022. Discography *''Au nom du père'' (Éloi et Jonathan Painchaud, 2002) #Mon plus beau rêve #Parle, parle #Shalala #Ranch Flavor #Chat noir #Que du vent #Un #Petite symphonie #Le soleil se lève encore #Berceuse #Verre Bouteille #C'est fini #Louisianne *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éloi Painchaud
Éloi Painchaud is a Canadian musician from Quebec, best known as a member of the bands Okoumé and Salebarbes with his brother Jonathan Painchaud. He has also been a composer of music for film. Alongside the band Les Colocs, he won a Prix Jutra for Best Original Music at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for '' Through the Mist (Dédé à travers les brumes)'', and he was the co-writer with his wife Jorane of " L'hymne", sung by Fred Pellerin and Céline Dion for the film '' Snowtime! (La guerre des tuques 3D)''. He has been a Prix Jutra/Iris nominee for Best Original Music on two other occasions, receiving nods at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for ''Target Number One ''Target Number One'' (released as ''Most Wanted'' in the United States, ''Suspect numéro un'' in Quebec) is a 2020 Canadian crime drama film directed by Daniel Roby.Dino-Ray Ramos"Saban Films Acquires Crime Thriller ‘Most Wanted’ Starring J ...'' with Jorane and Jean-Phi Goncalves, and at the 24th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Canada
Francophone Canadians or French-speaking Canadians are citizens of Canada who speak French, and sometimes refers only to those who speak it as their first language. In 2021, 10,669,575 people in Canada or 29.2% of the total population spoke French, including 7,651,360 people or 20.8% who declared French as their mother tongue. Distribution Six million French-speaking Canadians reside in Quebec, where they constitute the main linguistic group, and another one million reside in other Canadian regions. The largest portion of Francophones outside Quebec live in Ontario, followed by New Brunswick, but they can be found in all provinces and territories. The presence of French in Canada comes mainly from French colonization in America that occurred in the 16th to 18th centuries. Francophones in Canada are not all of French Canadian or French descent, particularly in the English-speaking provinces of Ontario and Western Canada. A few Canadians of French Canadian or French origin are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CKOI-FM
:For the CKOI radio network, see '' CKOI (network)''. CKOI-FM (96.9 FM) is a commercial radio station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It airs a French-language contemporary hit radio format and is owned and operated by Cogeco. The studios are in Place Bonaventure at 800 rue de la Gauchetière ouest in Montreal. CKOI-FM is a Class C1 station. Its transmitter is on Mount Royal with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 148,000 watts using an omnidirectional antenna. Until 2018, it was one of North America's highest-powered FM stations. History Early years The station's original call sign was CKVL-FM, sister station to CKVL 850 AM. Both stations were located in Verdun, a community just outside Montreal. They identified their city of license as Verdun until 2002. CKVL-FM was founded by Jack Tietolman and Corey Thomson and probably went on the air at some point between 1947 and 1957. Sources disagree on the date, and at least seven different years have been reported as the station' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Parent
Kevin Parent (born 12 December 1972) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec. He is fluent in both English and French. Early life Although his first language is English, he was born in Greenfield Park, Quebec (now a borough of the city of Longueuil), and was raised and educated in the French-speaking area of Bay of Chaleur (Gaspé Peninsula) in the municipality of Nouvelle, Quebec, Nouvelle during his childhood and attended high school at the École Antoine-Bernard in Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec, Carleton-sur-Mer. Career In 1993, Parent participated in a songwriting competition, and was consequently signed to Tacca Musique shortly thereafter. His first album, "Pigeon d'argile" sold over 360,000 copies, making it one of the greatest Québécois album sales successes of the decade. Hit singles "Nomade sedentaire", "Seigneur" and "Boomerang", made Parent become well known in Quebec music in the 1990s, winning a number of Felix Awards in the province and touring on both side ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appalachian Dulcimer
The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic. Name The Appalachian dulcimer has many variant names. Most often it is simply called a dulcimer (also rendered as "dulcimore", "dulcymore", "delcimer", "delcimore", ''etc.''). When it needs to be distinguished from the unrelated hammered dulcimer, various adjectives are added (drawn from location, playing style, position, shape, etc.), for example: mountain dulcimer; Kentucky dulcimer; plucked dulcimer; fretted dulcimer; lap dulcimer; teardrop dulcimer; box dulcimer; etc. The instrument has also acquired a number of nicknames (some shared by other instruments): "harmonium", "hog fiddle", "music box", "harmony box", and "mountain zither". Origins and history Although the Appalac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lap Steel Guitar
The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or lap slide guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional acoustic guitar, in which the performer's fingertips press the strings against frets, the pitch of a steel guitar is changed by pressing a polished steel bar against strings while plucking them with the opposite hand. The steel guitar's name is derived from this steel bar. Though the instrument does not have frets, it displays markers that resemble them. Lap steels may differ markedly from one another in external appearance, depending on whether they are acoustic or electric, but in either case, do not have pedals, distinguishing them from pedal steel guitars. The steel guitar was the first foreign musical instrument to gain a foothold in American pop music. It originated in the Hawaiian Kingdom about 1885, popularize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandolin
A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled Strings (music), strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of eight strings. A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being the most common and usually the least expensive. The courses are typically tuned in an interval of perfect fifths, with the same tuning as a violin (G3, D4, A4, E5). Also, like the violin, it is the soprano member of a Family (musical instruments), family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass. There are many styles of mandolin, but the three most common types are the ''Neapolitan'' or ''round-backed'' mandolin, the ''archtop'' mandolin and the ''flat-backed'' mandolin. The round-backed version has a deep bottom, constructed of strips of wood, glued together into a bowl. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
